The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

Orange' is fun. Even when we're doing super-intense, emotional, or physical stuff, we're having fun. We're checking in with each other; we know about each other's lives and know each other's families and relationships. We're really friends.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.